Today I fanned the muck up and revisited a project that has been sat on my desk for months now. I undercoated and basecoated my Thunderhawk gunship. I feel it’s a bit of a milestone getting the blue paint on the old bird and I…

I’ve been very quietly recently… sorry about that. It was my birthday the other day and I was away for the weekend swimming with Sharks in Europe’s largest shark aquarium. It was awesome. Enough about my birthday though, I’m just starting to get my hobby…

There are lots of parts for the Heavy Bolters as you can see above, read on to see the wing bolters come together. After I’d cut off all the excess and and cleaned up the parts, I realised the parts didn’t fit (no change there…

Having added the the rear tail fin in the last blog entry, I continued down the aerilon route and added the front wings, their aerilons and the main wing aerilons. First things first, a nice cup of tea in my favourite mug! Secondly the clean…

Well today’s entry is all about the rear stabilising tail fin and ailerons. I’ve cleaned the pieces up as shown in the pic above. In these pictures you can see a groove in the engine, it’s important this is facing upwards otherwise the tail fin…

Brother Sergeant Chronus is mightily impressed with the landing gear. Can you believe that with all the straightening, filing, sanding of all the parts, the actual landing gear needed no work! It was a perfect level fit. Close up shot of the front and rear…

With all the smaller parts now washed, I could start making up some of the smaller assemblies such as the landing gear. As you can see in the first pic there are quite a few parts (none of which are labelled or numbered by the…

The build has been going really well, with most of the big parts cleaned up, straightened and dry fitted. It’s time to clean the parts. I use hot water, a toothbrush and washing up liquid to clean the parts. As you can see I use…

Tiny update from me today. The above pic shows the Turbo Laser with a piece of brass rod drilled into it. I thought this simplistic method of switching weapons would work a treat. I’ll use magnets for the heavy bolter wing sponsons though.

If you’ve been following my Thunderhawk blog entries then you’ll know I have a soft spot for power tools (and hair dryers). I’ve found another power tool to use. In the first pic you can see me sanding one the jet engine parts flat with…